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Valued Member
United States
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My girl keeps her eyes peeled for me as well! Especially for old pennies :)
So far she has brought me a wheatie! Haha :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
784 Posts |
lucky all my wife does is complain about it =)
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Valued Member
United States
63 Posts |
My wife is pretty good about my collecting habits as long as I'm not working on it all the time when I'm home. She always saves her change for me to go through. We used to live near her parents and they would save their change as well and let me go through it. When we went back to WA to visit them at Christmas, they had several jars of coins they had saved for me to go through. I actually found a few wheets and 3 2009 nickels.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My wife is very slowly coming around to my coin collecting habits, at least she thinks some are "pretty". But she would still prefer a common BU Mercury dime to a VG 1877 IHC, so she has a ways to go  At least she humors my activities and has even gone to a coin show while we were on vacation, mainly so she could poke fun at me and my piers though. Nice find on the proof Lincoln. Proof coins in circulation are an enigma to me. |
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 United States
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Quote:It was a 1980s proof Lincoln Cent... Although this isn't a major find, I'm just excited that my wife found it In my opinion, any proof found in circulation is cause for celebration. You have saved it from an unwarranted death!  My only circulation found proof was actually discovered by my wife in her grocery store change. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I've got my sister, my mother, and my husband all saving their change for me to search through. In my sister's change I found a 1940 cent. She doesn't look at the dates...and I found a 1960 cent on her garage floor ...and a plastic (no kidding)cent as well as a double-headed trick quarter.
My mother... well, she's always sort of rolled her eyes when I start talking about coins but I picked up an old WWII ration book at a coin club meeting just to take to her so we could look over it together. She remembered those. So the next time I saw her she pulled out this 'weird' nickel. It was a Westward Journey nickel and she wanted to know what it was and whose picture is that supposed to be? LOL She's 80 and I'll bet she quit looking at her change closely when she got bifocals 30 years ago. So we had a nice talk about new nickels.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Some wives are just happy that their fellas are not wasting their money on booze or gambling, or worse, drugs.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3755 Posts |
I have been with my wife, VACookey, for 6 years. It took me 5 years to get her interested, but once I did, watch out! She is as into this as me now. Just read the 32D thread and you will see. LOL So I count myself as very lucky.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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My husband and I decided to start a collection together. In the past he's collected things I'm not intereted in. We'll retire in the next 15 - 20 years and wanted to find something we both enjoy that we could do together. This seems to fit our requirements and we've had a lot of fun finding and buying a few things so far. We've been looking for some coin shows - I don't think we're going to find any until spring. They are hard to find - are there not many shows in the midwest?
I'm glad you're wife found a proof in circulation! I hope she becomes more interested and it's something you can both enjoy and do together!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1510 Posts |
we saw a show about Toaster collectors I said "See I'm not THAT BAD"
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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United States
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We've been looking for some coin shows - I don't think we're going to find any until spring. They are hard to find - are there not many shows in the midwest? Although not the most complete listing, you can start here... Coin Shows. Once you do find a show to attend, be on the lookout for flyers advertising other shows in your area or region. They usually have them on the front table where you sign in. |
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United States
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Since I started my wife has been my main source of coins. She works at a check cashing store and people bring in old money all the time. She used to get angry when someone would bring in 20 dollars in quarters but now she just throws a twenty in the register and brings home the coins for me to sift through. She's always overjoyed to find a Wheat penny though :) |
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Valued Member
United States
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Some wives are just happy that their fellas are not wasting their money on booze or gambling, or worse, drugs. This needs more love. My wife gives me a roll of the eyes when I come in with a little bag of silver or a few boxes of pennies to hunt. But she knows I could be up to something a lot worse. |
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United States
188770 Posts |
My wife gets it, so I am one of the lucky ones. She has her own infatuations, so we are a good match.  |
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Valued Member
United States
99 Posts |
my brother gives me change to look through. one time he given me a 2000 Wide AM penny! |
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Posted 01/23/2012 11:57 am
